Electronics & Communications – Page 20
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Iridium® reports strong growth for mobile satellite services
Iridium® Satellite reported on 11 June that its mobile satellite services business in the maritime sector continues to show steady growth with the number of subscribers up 17 per cent over the same time last year. Maritime traffic through the satellite network is growing at an annual rate of 12 ...
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New software for GEONET
IXTrawl S.A.S., wills be launching its new software for the GEONET system at FISHING 2007.
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NewsNMEA appoints new president
The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) has appointed David Hayden as its new President and Executive Director. David accepted the leadership position of the NMEA after serving a distinguished career of 34 years in the marine electronics industry.
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NewsNew MD for Kelvin Hughes
Russell Gould has been appointed managing director of Kelvin Hughes Ltd, part of the Specialty Engineering Division of Smiths Group plc.
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NewsMore US trawlers install Notus
For some time, the Notus Trawlmaster has been the trawl monitoring system of choice for several European and Canadian fisheries.
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NewsSuccess for the SP90 and an award for the ME70
Three Norwegian, six Faroese, four Danish and four Icelandic vessels have recently installed Simrad’s latest low frequency sonar SP90 and, according to Simrad, all have the same verdict: a very good all round sonar, both in shallow water (50-200m) fishing for herring, mackerel and horse mackerel and in deepwater fishing ...
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NewsNew portable VHF radio series
Thrane & Thrane is launching the first three products of the SAILOR SP3500 series.
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NewsVMS type-approved for US fisheries
Faria WatchDog®, Inc., has announced that its Iridium-based vessel monitoring system (VMS) has been type approved by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for installation on commercial fishing vessels in US waters.
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NewsPredicting future catch rates with Olfish-2007
The recently-launched Olfish-2007 electronic logbook system (see World Fishing February 2007) comprises two elements that manufacturer Olrac claims may well be the first of their kind – the Fishing Consultant and the Fleet Activity Optimiser.
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NewsMarport introduces next generation catch sensor
Marport has announced its next generation Catch Sensor. The sensor combines radical new design elements with innovative technology.
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Two new Navitron Autopilot models to make debut at Fishing 2007
Purpose developed for small professional vessel use across the workboat, pilot, patrol craft and fishing vessel sector to 25m LOA, the NT777 model is the first of a new digital Autopilot generation designed and manufactured by Navitron Systems Ltd.
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Naudeq ready for worldwide market
Naudeq develops high-tech systems and turnkey solutions for at-sea professionals.
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NewsNew Multi-Function Door Angle Sensor
Marport has announced the commercial release of its new Multi-Function Door Angle Sensor this month.
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Boeing buys C-Map
The Boeing Company recently announced it has concluded its purchase of C-Map, a leading provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information.
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Simrad SP90 software upgrade
The popular Simrad SP90 fish finding sonar has been upgraded. A new software package offering new functionality is available from Simrad dealers around the world.
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New GPS-DGPS sensors
SAM Electronics has introduced two high-precision R4 GPS and Differential GPS sensors designed for worldwide navigation aboard vessels of all types and sizes as well as delineation of fishing grounds and support of hydrographic surveying operations.
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Redfish tagging cruise
The Marine Research Institute (MRI) of Iceland recently conducted a redfish tagging cruise using Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE) from Star-Oddi.
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Sonartron electronics for “Sanmar II”
Sonartron Limited has provided the full electronic equipment package to Irishman Patrick Friel’s latest vessel, the “Sanmar II”, making this latest edition to the inshore fleet the most technically advanced crabber built.
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News“With SEVSAT we are connected all the time”
Willum Anderson, chief engineer on the “Huginn VE-55”, a 68m Icelandic fishing vessel which used to be out of range 95% of the time, says that SEVSAT gives them internet and telephone access on fishing grounds far away from shore.
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New Olfish-2007
Olrac, the company that developed Olfish, the software for the collection, management and reporting of commercial fishing data, launched the new version of its software, Olfish-2007 in January 2007.
